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B: PHILOSOPHY
Senior Research Seminar: Plato Gorgias
Seminars will be at 16:30 to 18:30 every Thursday throughout Lent and Easter in room 1.11. The line numbers follow Dodds’ edition.
*The 23 April, and 7 May Meetings will begin at 18:05 and end at 20:00.
Lent
- 16 January - 476a7–481b5 Punishment
- *23 January - 481b6–485e2 Callicles steps in
- 30 January - 485e3–490a8 Callicles on justice and power
- *6 February - 490b1–494b7 Self-rule and moderation: the stories of the jars
- 13 February - 494b7–497d7 Pleasure and pain
- 20 February - 497d8–500e2 Goodness and badness, pain and pleasure
- 27 February - 500e3–504e4 The good orator
- 5 March - 504e5–508a8 Socrates argues with himself
- 12 March - 508a8–512d6 Justice and self-help
Easter
- *23 April - 512d6–516d5 Evaluating Pericles
- 30 April - 516d5–520a6 Athens is a ‘swollen, festering sore’
- *7 May - 520a6–522e8 ‘The true science of politics’
- 14 May - 523a1–527e7 The myth
We will be reading Plato Gorgias. Please bring along a text.
Everyone interested in the Gorgias is welcome. Although this is the 'senior research seminar', the B Caucus positively encourages young people, people from other caucuses and indeed philosophical people with no affiliation with the B Caucus to attend.
THE B CLUB
Meets in room 1.11, Faculty of Classics, at 17:00; tea available outside 1.11 from 16:30.
3 February
Margaret Hampson (Trinity College, Dublin)
The Learner's Motivation and the Structure of Habituation in Aristotle
17 February
Rachel Barney (Toronto)
Platonic Predication
